GO FAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does go far mean? 

• GO FAR (verb)
  The verb GO FAR has 2 senses:

1. succeed in a big way; get to the top

2. extend in importance or range

  Familiarity information: GO FAR used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GO FAR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Succeed in a big way; get to the top

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

arrive; get in; go far; make it

Context example:

You will go far, my boy!

Hypernyms (to "go far" is one way to...):

bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win (attain success or reach a desired goal)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Extend in importance or range

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

go deep; go far

Context example:

His accomplishments go far

Hypernyms (to "go far" is one way to...):

extend; go; lead; pass; run (stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

This month you can go far, if you ask for help.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The brains of the two people are brought together thanks to language, and communication creates links between people that go far beyond what we can perceive from the outside.

(Our Brains Synchronize during A Conversation, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But he was not destined to go far.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This is indeed a fine sight upon which it is good to look, and a man might go far ere he would see so many brave men and fine horses.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They ain't had a bite in weeks I reckon, outside of Fatty an' Frog an' Spanker; an' there's so many of 'em that that didn't go far.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You can go far—if you want to.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We had not to go far.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I saw him myself fight fifty rounds after his jaw had been cracked in three places. If Wilson could beat him, Wilson will go far.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“We have let this affair go far enough,” said he.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you could have looked into my very heart then when I want to laugh; if you could have done so when the laugh arrived; if you could do so now, when King Laugh have pack up his crown, and all that is to him—for he go far, far away from me, and for a long, long time—maybe you would perhaps pity me the most of all.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)